2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 61 - GENERAL PROVISIONS AS TO OFFICES AND OFFICERS -- SOCIAL SECURITY FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES -- EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM 61.300 Nonelective peace officer or deputy -- Qualifications.
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61.300 Nonelective peace officer or deputy -- Qualifications.
No person shall serve as a deputy sheriff, deputy constable, patrol or other
nonelective peace officer, or deputy peace officer, unless:
(1) He is a citizen of the United States and is twenty-one (21) years of age or over;
(2) If a deputy constable, he has resided in the county wherein he is appointed to
serve for a period of at least two (2) years;
(3) If a deputy sheriff, he shall be a resident of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. A
sheriff may require his or her deputies to reside in the county in which they
serve. Any deputy sheriff appointed pursuant to this section who has not been
a resident of the county in which he serves for a period of at least two (2) years
shall not be an active participant in any labor dispute and shall immediately
forfeit his position if he violates this provision;
(4) He has never been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude;
(5) He has not within a period of two (2) years hired himself out, performed any
service, or received any compensation from any private source for acting, as a
privately paid detective, policeman, guard, peace officer, or otherwise as an
active participant in any labor dispute, or conducted the business of a private
detective agency or of any agency supplying private detectives, private
policemen, or private guards, or advertised or solicited any such business in
connection with any labor dispute; and
(6) He has complied with the provisions of KRS 15.334.
Effective:June 20, 2005
History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 132, sec. 30, effective June 20, 2005. -Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 416, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended
1998 Ky. Acts ch. 98, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts
ch. 134, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1990; and ch. 443, sec. 64, effective July 13,
1990. -- Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1980. -Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 19, sec. 1. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 308,
sec. 25. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942,
from Ky. Stat. secs. 3766a-5a, 3766a-5b, 3766a-5d, 3766a-5e.
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